Catalyst grind

[Oatmeal_Crusader]

Ok so, I recently got mastery rank 13, along the way of getting there I got a few actually good weapons which I would really like to use, however, I'm unable to get my hands on catalysts without spending plat which shouldn't be a problem considering they are mandatory on all weapons if you want to make use of their full potential.And no, nightwave isn't a good way to get reactors and catalysts since they cost 75 nightwave credits and you only get 50 each time you reach a rank which gives you those excluding the first rank.
so, I would either really like a way to grind towards them without spending plat, or, change nightwave so that it gives a small ammount of credits for each challenge completed as to make it easier/ less time consuming to get them 

[krc473]

2 minutes ago, KronkhHD said:

And no, nightwave isn't a good way to get reactors and catalysts since they cost 75 nightwave credits and you only get 50 each time you reach a rank which gives you those excluding the first rank.

Hit Rank 30 in NW then you go into the Prestige system. Last time this gave NW Creds every rank up. You were able to get one or two a week - this depends on what is in the prestige system this time.

3 minutes ago, KronkhHD said:

however, I'm unable to get my hands on catalysts without spending plat which shouldn't be a problem considering they are mandatory on all weapons if you want to make use of their full potential

You see to be forgetting the Warframe is free to play. DE has to make money somehow, so they sell Reactors/Catalysts and other 'essential' things (like the Romba). If you don't want to pay money just sell a couple of items. Baro is here, farm some Prime Parts and sell them off as junk. People usually go 6 parts for 12 - 15 platinum.

• I do not think DE should give us other ways to consistently get them (exc. NW). They are cheap and easy to get. 

6 minutes ago, KronkhHD said:

change nightwave so that it gives a small ammount of credits for each challenge completed as to make it easier/ less time consuming to get them 

I do agree with this. I think major ones should be 100 or 50. But every other rank should give us 10 or 15. That was my main issue with the previous NW, we were not able to get enough NW Creds.

[lifulo]

You're missing invasions. They offer potato blueprints every now and then. If you don't wanna bother with checking that tab, just use a discord bot for tracking them or take a peek at semlar.com. Buying them from nightwave is a waste of credits imo. They're only 20p which you can farm really fast.

[Andaius]

You get lots of chances to earn them for free, you get usually once every gift of the lotus, in invasions sometimes, and now in nightwave for credits. You just have to look for them.

[NinjaZeku]

13 hours ago, KronkhHD said:

a way to grind towards them without spending plat

If grinding is okay with you, why not farm stuff that you can then sell for Plat?

[000l000]

Le 03/08/2019 à 02:02, KronkhHD a dit :

Ok so, I recently got mastery rank 13, along the way of getting there I got a few actually good weapons which I would really like to use, however, I'm unable to get my hands on catalysts without spending plat which shouldn't be a problem considering they are mandatory on all weapons if you want to make use of their full potential.And no, nightwave isn't a good way to get reactors and catalysts since they cost 75 nightwave credits and you only get 50 each time you reach a rank which gives you those excluding the first rank.
so, I would either really like a way to grind towards them without spending plat, or, change nightwave so that it gives a small ammount of credits for each challenge completed as to make it easier/ less time consuming to get them 

Buy a decent aura, sell it for 30-40 pl if you pick the right one, then you can get 2 catalysts with plat. Auras are half catalyst price but can generate twice the amount of plat - nightwave currency ratio is completely broken - DE obviously doesn't have a clue about what's going on in most WF markets.

The whole nightwave currency mechanics isn't much consistent and really needs a QoL.